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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified. Nor ought we kill them without reason. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p. Carruthers, The Animals Issue , p.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The issue is not whether slaughtering horses is un-American, but that it is inhumane and wholly unnecessary. Americans do have a special relationship with horses, and how we treat them reveals much about our own humanity and how far we have evolved. Horse slaughter for meat export is just plain wrong.